Battle of Rushigen

The Battle of Rushigen was a battle of the Russian Civil War which occurred on 2 February 1919 when the German Freikorps paramilitary group met the Bolshevik Red Army in battle at Rushigen in the Baltics (present-day Raseiniai, Lithuania) during Lithuania's war for independence against the communists. The Freikorps, consisting of toughened World War I veterans, was able to drive the Bolsheviks back after fighting the Russians in the Baltic woods. The Bolsheviks were defeated, and the majority of the Red Army force was eliminated by the Freikorps during the battle, one of the many battles of the Russian Civil War/Lithuanian War of Independence.